| The meat of the wing is shinnied down the main bone and wrapped with the skin around one end. |
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| Once a week, however, it shinnied down a trunk to the ground where it took a long, healthy shoot at the base of the tree. |
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| He shinnied up it quickly and began carefully testing his weight on the small deck of the first house. |
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| He raised the pole above his head, drove the spike into a log at his feet, shinnied up the pole, and to a chorus of cheers, bowed as he stood upon the far side, triumphant. |
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| One of the children shinnied up and tore a piece of cloth off, and slid back down. |
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| From the look of things — Cranston shinnied up the back fence to take a peek — the water hadn't been changed since. |
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| I grinned and shinnied up a side rope ladder up to the mast almost. |
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| Soon the steepness decreased, but the climbing remained strenuous for the next two hours as we shinnied up complex chimneys and followed jagged ridges. |
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| With the aid of a scrap of burlap looped around his bare feet, he shinnied fifty feet to the top, pulled a machete from his belt loop, and cut loose a clump of branches that sprouted beneath the spreading fronds. |
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| When he shinnied up to remove the banner, some in the crowd hooted catcalls. |
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| After a few moments' rest, he climbed onto the pile of timbers and, finding a long one that slanted up to the riverbank, he painfully shinnied up it. |
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| Like one of the Sliding Wallendas, he shinnied down the wire toward the screen. |
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| I actually shinnied up the tree another couple of feet, and by tilting my head and looking through one eye, I was able to see the matching six points on the other side. |
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